Word: ostrich
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...proud of it." He was "surprised" that Gaitskell should bring up the subject: "If everybody were to see again those hysterical broadcasts of his, they would have a shock." Sarcastically he taunted: "The Opposition's chief idea in a difficulty is to run away from it. The ostrich and not the eagle should be their crest...
...plight of a distressed lady brings out -sometimes -the gallant in men, and rarely better than in Ghana. When the pet ostrich of chic Madame Claude de Guirin-gaud, wife of France's ambassador, disappeared, who should come hurrying to the rescue? None other than Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah himself. Hearing a missing-bird bulletin over the state radio station, Nkrumah forthwith phoned the chief of police in Accra to get his head out of the sand. Dragnet-quick result: the chief found his quarry in his own garden, triumphantly reported to the P.M., who triumphantly eased Madame...
Admittedly, the arts faculty can not line up against that of a great university. But there are several outstanding scholars at Lehigh: as John Leith, Dean of Students, sardonically says, "we've hung a few ostrich eggs in the hen-house for the girls to look...
...Eisenhower Administration's ostrich-like desire to ignore public opinion on foreign affairs, particularly Quemoy and Matsu, is an anomaly in a democratic society. The thesis, as maintained by the President and vice-President, that free speech must be sacrificed for the appearance of a united front, could set a peculiarly dangerous precedent...
...good to stay in the Poconos; he worked his way up from the chorus of Broadway musicals to leading roles with Ballet Theater. The wiry kid from Weehawken was uneasy in velvet doublets and ostrich plumes. But in comic and character roles he moved with an antic wit that charmed audiences, and soon he got his chance to take U.S. ballet out of doublets and put it in dungarees...